The U.S. is only admitting white South African refugees

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The Trump administration is advancing plans to resettle an additional 10,000 white South Africans in the United States as refugees. The U.S. has resettled just over 6,000 refugees between October and April — all except three were from South Africa. President Trump has said Afrikaners face racial persecution and genocide in South Africa, claims that have been rejected by the U.N. Human Rights Office, among others. Last year, he cut off aid to the country. "Whiteness is being recast as endangered," says Lebohang Pheko, a professor of practice at the University of Johannesburg. "There is a move towards the alt-right, the MAGA discourse, which is about replacement theory." Pheko also suggests that Trump's actions toward South Africa are retribution for the genocide case it brought against Israel at the International Court of Justice.